I am a fourth year PhD Candidate in Dr. Talia Lerner’s lab at Northwestern University. I received my BA from Oberlin College in 2019, where I studied the role of the striatal patch compartment in habit formation with Dr. Chris Howard. After graduation, I spent two years as a postbac in Dr. David Lovinger’s lab at NIAAA. In the Lerner Lab, I study the mechanisms linking adolescent chronic stress in adolescence to dysfunctional reward-seeking in adulthood.